Gravity keeps our feet on the ground, <br />Stops us from slapdash flying around. <br />This force of attraction ‘fictitious’ gives weight <br />And makes all fall down at equivalent rate. <br /> <br />(Albeit in flights of fancy it seems <br />That gravity follows the laws of dreams.) <br /> <br />Relativity caused Newton’s view to shatter, <br />In positing spacetime to be curved by matter. <br />So objects will take a particular path <br />That must correspond with Einsteinian math. <br /> <br />(The upshot is bodies have odysseys <br />Appropriate to their geodesies.) <br /> <br />Gravitons, a gravitational source <br />Of controversy, are seen as a horse <br />Of a quite different color altogether. <br />But then scientists aren’t birds of a feather. <br /> <br />(Some sit upon their a priori-based fences <br />And come up with theories defying the senses.) <br /> <br />Weak or strong, short or long, what is this thing <br />Called gravity? Wide hypotheses swing. <br />There are those who suppose that it’s this, others that. <br />Maybe someday, they all just might have it down pat. <br /> <br />(Meanwhile gravity, though we resize and shape it, <br />Will still have its own way— for who can escape it?) <br /> <br />(November 2010 – Granada, Spain)<br /><br />Harley White<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-gravity-of-gravity/
